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6th grade reading strategies thematic unit plans for Microsoft PowerPoint
Genre Detective Unit BUNDLE - Teaching Genre - Fiction and Non Fiction included
Stumped by how to teach genre? Look no further than this fun and engaging Genre Detective unit. Save yourself time and trouble while also having your students will enjoy these lessons.The unit covers the following genres of Fiction and Non-fiction:Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Fables, Mystery, Science Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, and Informational Texts.This purchase includes a compressed (zip) file complete with everything you will need to teach genre to your students!!PowerPoi
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Zathura: CREATE YOUR OWN BOARD GAME (Editable)
In this UDL based project, students develop a Game Board with rules and game pieces based on the popular childrens' story, Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg. There are many choices for Game Board templates, dice templates, and game piece templates. (See full PDF Preview)This is an engaging way for students to show comprehension and engage with reading in a meaningful way. This project can be used in lieu of a written assessment. This can also be used as a final project for a thematic unit. Plus, i
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
MYSTERY GENRE STUDY and WRITING UNIT + DETECTIVE ACTIVITIES
In this 35% off mystery genre study and mystery writing no-prep unit students are led from the PowerPoint introduction of the genre to completion of the unit with TWO of their own mystery stories. Additional detective activities ensure that every lesson is full of inference making fun!1. Grades 5-8 students first watch a colorful 40 slide introduction to the mystery genre. A short quiz tests their knowledge of key mystery elements. 2. They read 15 fun mentor texts, and work either alone or in gr
Grades:
5th - 8th
Practicing Reading Closely:Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address part 1
Today we will begin a study about the Haudenosaunee Iroquois people and some of their traditions. 2
Learning Objectives/Targets:
*I can use details and examples from the Thanksgiving Address when explaining what specific passages say or mean.
*I can show what I know by contributing to discussions.
New York’s Common Core Standards:I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1) I can explain the main points in a historical text accurately. (RI.4.3) I can e
Grades:
3rd - 6th
“Birth of the Haudenosaunee”: The Creation of a Nation
Learning Objectives/Targets:*I can notice new ideas and wonder about how nations are created.*I can answer questions using specific details from a text. *I can demonstrate what I know by contributing to discussions.
New York’s Common Core Standards: *I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1) * I can engage effectively in a collaborative discussion. (SL.4.4)
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Mystery Reading Unit Powerpoint
This Powerpoint presentation is based on the Reader's Workshop model. Each minilesson includes a cover page, connection, teaching point, teaching component, active engagement, and link. The following minilessons are included:
1) Beginning a Mystery Story
2) Paying Close Attention to the Details
3) Using Predictions to Think About Text in New Ways
4) Reflect and Synthesize on Mystery Text
5) Asking Questions and Tracking Our Musings
6) Collecting Thick Questions to Lead to Deeper Understanding
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Grades:
4th - 7th
The Giver Paired Passage Activity - Expository Connection (Aligned w/TEKS)
Generate rich and purposeful classroom discussions using an expository paired text with "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.
Pairing texts with novels is necessary to ensure that students are reading at a deeper level and making connections across texts. Newsela offers a great set of expository articles to connect with "The Giver." Newsela is a free resource for teachers - if you don't have it - you should definitely get it!
For this activity I used one of Newsela's articles to create a Think, Rethink
Grades:
6th - 12th
Reading Closely: Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address Part 2
Learning Objective/Target:
* I can use details and examples from the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address when explaining what specific passages say or mean.
New York’s Common Core Standards:I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1) I can explain the main points in a historical text accurately. (RI.4.3) I can engage effectively in a collaborative discussion. (SL.4.1)
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Keeping Track of How it All Fits Together: Making Connections
New York’s Common Core Standards:
*I can make connections between texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, personal events and situations. (RL.4.11)
*I can paraphrase information presented in diverse media and formats. (SL.4.2) *I can engage effectively in a collaborative discussion. (SL.4.1)
Learning Objectives/Targets:
*I can make connections between texts. *I can reread to find specific details.
*I can plan a symbol for my wampum belt.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Practicing Reading Closely: Birth of the Haudenosaunee
Learning Objective:
*I can answer questions using specific details from a text. *I can compare a video to a text version of the same story. *I can demonstrate what I know by contributing to discussions.
New York’s Common Core Standards:
*I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1)
*I can engage effectively in a collaborative discussion. (SL.4.1) *I can compare different versions of the same story (RI.4.7)
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Lesson Two - Insects, Developing Metacognitive Skills
Supplemental slides to accompany the lessons in Developing Metacognitive SkillsThese colorful, engaging slides will add richness and excitement to the lessons for your students and will “build foundational skills such as oral language, vocabulary, world knowledge, and working memory and will develop metacognitive skills that will help students think about thinking.” Each slide presentation coincides with the lesson cycles for each of the lessons in the Developing Metacognitive Skills manual. The
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Lesson Eight - Greed, Developing Metacognitive Skills
Supplemental slides to accompany the lessons in Developing Metacognitive SkillsThese colorful, engaging slides will add richness and excitement to the lessons for your students and will “build foundational skills such as oral language, vocabulary, world knowledge, and working memory and will develop metacognitive skills that will help students think about thinking.” Each slide presentation coincides with the lesson cycles for each of the lessons in the Developing Metacognitive Skills manual. The
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Captain Underpants: The Attack of the Notorious, Nefarious Novel Study!
Do you have reluctant readers? Will your students read nothing but graphic novels? Don't fight it! Embrace it! Dav Pilkey uses a wonderful plethora of strong vocabulary in his Captain Underpants books and it's time us teachers used that to our advantage! This unit is fun, fully prepped and ready to go. There are web links, vocab activities, comprehension questions (and an answer key), as well as character development and more. Plus, you may be surprised at how often you find yourself laughing to
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Building Background Knowledge: Colonial Craftspeople
Learning Objectives/Targets:
• I can make inferences about colonial craftspeople by examining documents
that include text and pictures.
• I can determine the main idea of an informational text on colonial
craftspeople.
• I can identify details that support the main idea of an informational text.
• I can summarize an informational text on colonial craftspeople by writing
a gist statement.
New York Common Core Standards:
I can make inferences using specific details from the text. (RI
Grades:
3rd - 6th
End of Unit1 Assesmt: infer & Synthesize 2 texts on Life in Colonial America
*Think about how you have learned to make inferences and synthesize your
learning and the different ways you have practiced these reading strategies,
as you have become experts on life in Colonial America. 2
Learning Objectives/Targets:
*I can support my inferences with details from the text.
* I can synthesize information from two or more documents on the same topic.
New York Common Core Standards:
*I can use details and examples to explain explicit information and inferences in inform
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Mid-Unit 2 Assessment:Inferring about the Silversmith Trade in Colonial Times
New York State’s Common Core Standards:
I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1)
I can make inferences using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1)
I can document what I learn about a topic by sorting evidence into categories. (W.4.8)
I can write an informative text. (W.4.2)
Learning Objectives/Targets:
• I can sort specific details about a topic into categories.
• I can support my inference about a topic with text-based evidence.
• I can inform an a
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Word Choice: Using Academic Vocabulary to Apply for a Colonial Trade Job
Learning Objectives/Targets:
• I can use academic and trade-specific vocabulary as I describe the characteristics of a colonial trade in a job application.
• I can share the important details of a colonial trade by speaking clearly and at an understandable pace
New York’s Common Core Standards:
I can produce writing that is appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
(W.4.4)
I can write for a variety of reasons. (W.4.10)
I can accurately use fourth-grade academic vocabulary to express m
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Bad Case of the Stripes - Context Clues
Power Point Presentation with examples from the text to help students learn how to use Context Clues as a strategy when reading.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Cause and Effect: Fall Edition
Practice cause and effect with this activity that includes:
-2 cause and effect posters
-40 event cards
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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